Digital Surgery and Telemedicine · 10 March 2024

Machine learning does not outperform expert-informed predictions for outcome after major liver surgery

Expert-informed prediction models and machine learning models both showed similar performance in predicting postoperative overall morbidity in liver surgery patients, with high variability and over/underprediction. There was no improvement in performance for major liver surgery patients, indicating that machine learning may not have clinical relevance for predicting postoperative outcomes at this stage.

Journal Article by Staiger RD, Mehra T (…) Clavien PA et 7 al. in HPB (Oxford)

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